Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 559 · 40 questions

Study tip (Test, don’t re-read): More effective: testing yourself, recalling from memory, explaining it aloud, practice questions, quizzing a friend, self-made flashcards. Less effective: re-reading the chapter, highlighting lines, copying notes neatly, glancing at notes. After reading a page: close it, recall it, check, and fix what you missed.

1. 1.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
4. 4.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
7. 7.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
32. 32.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
34. 34.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) write what you know
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again

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